First and Foremost ...SMART Disk Monitor (smartmon) is a windows-only GUI end-user product, is obsolete, and we won't sell it to new customers. If you desire advanced diagnostics; support for over a dozen operating systems; firmware flashing; self-healing; or have RAID controllers, then don't consider purchasing smartmon. Consider SMARTMon-UX, SMARTMon-UX, which is a scriptable command-line version designed by storage architects for field service people, hardware designers, and system administrators. Or, better yet consider the SANTOOL ...

New Product Pre-Announcement
SANtools will soon begin shipping the SANTOOL. This is a customizable USB flash memory stick that incorporates a light-weight embedded web server; HTML and Javascript-based forms, and an enhanced multi-platform version of smartmon-ux diagnostics. Just plug the SANtool into a host system and start running diagnostics. Run on as many computers as you want, anywhere. Everything runs directly from the SANtool, so there is nothing to install, or remove from the system(s) you test. The GUI is presented via a standard web browser running on the local or remote machine over a secure (SSL) connection. It supports multiple operating systems. Use it on a Windows machine, eject it, then plug the same unit into a Sun or LINUX computer, mount the common filesystem, and start running diagnostics instead of installing software.

=== SMART Disk Monitor General Product Overview Follows ===

SMART Disk Monitor is a Windows-specific utility that monitors your disk hardware with the goal of identifying disks that have a strong possibility if crashing. This provides you a window of opportunity to gracefully remove data from a failing disk and take it off-line ... Before your disk drive takes you off-line. Our software allows you to access the predictive failure functionality native to most disk drives. This hardware feature is called S.M.A.R.T., which stands for Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology. IBM, Seagate, Fujitsu, Quantum, Western Digital, and other drive manufacturers put this feature into their disk drives. Typical attributes that are monitored include head flying height, temperature, spin-up time, retries, and internal error logs. If a drive is running outside of a vendor's specifications, then our software alerts your administrator.
Failures can be seen from two standpoints: predictable and unpredictable. Unpredictable failures, such as power surges that can cause failure, occur quickly. Predictable failures are characterized by degradation of an attribute over time, before the disk drive fails. Many mechanical failures are typically considered predictable because of degradation in a disk drive's attributes such as head flying height, which would indicate a potential head crash. Certain electronic failures also show degradation before failing.

How does S.M.A.R.T. Work?
Failures can be seen from two standpoints: predictable and unpredictable. Unpredictable failures, such as power surges that can cause failure, occur quickly. Predictable failures are characterized by degradation of an attribute over time, before the disk drive fails. Many mechanical failures are typically considered predictable because of degradation in a disk drive's attributes such as head flying height, which would indicate a potential head crash. Certain electronic failures also show degradation before failing.

Enclosure Services (SES and SAF-TE) Monitoring:
If your drives or tapes are in a SES-compliant or SAF-TE compliant enclosure, then the software will monitor
it and provide you programmable alerts for enclosure component failures, such as power supply, fan,
or battery problems.
Polling Frequency: Configurable from "Never Poll", to auto-poll every 1-99999999 seconds.Event Notification: The SMART Disk Monitor has an imbedded E-MAIL engine which will send an appropriate
E-MAIL message to the administrator of your choice which will have the specific
drive, error message and time stamp of the event. You can even send test
messages, and have a special header to indicate an automated message. If you
have a TCP/IP connection, the software will use it, if you access your mail
server via modem, then the software will automatically dial out and connect to
it if need be, providing your dialer automatically enters your username and
password.Automated Actions: In an event of a predictive drive failure, then a
user-configurable automated script will
start up. This script can be used to begin a backup procedure, or invoke some other error recovery or notification
procedure.Event Filtering: Editable ASCII filter file lets you
control sense the sense key, code and qualifier combinations that would
generate an E-MAIL notification. You can also control them by specific by
adapter, SCSI ID, and LUN. Wildcards and ranges are supported.Detailed Sense Code Information: Log and mode sense information is
manufacturer and model-specific. We have an editable ASCII database that
cross-references the cryptic codes into the specific text. If your drive is not
in our database, then it will have a generic message, such as "Predictive
Failure Analysis Threshold Reached on Recovered Error". If your drive is in our
database, you may also get a trailer that adds, "Fly Height Change Problem,
Recommend Device Replacement". As drives are encoded into our database, updates
will be posted on our website for free download.Reported Vital Product Data: Regardless of the make or model of disk, you will be able to
access the following information on all devices -- manufacturer; drive model;
SCSI device type; firmware revision level; # of factory defects; transfer size
(8-bit,16-bit,32-bit, or serial); Removable Medium Y/N; and lots of information
pertaining to the predictive failure (S.M.A.R.T.) capability. You can now
also view the primary partition tables on your disk drives.Advanced Vital Product Data: This information is drive specific, and is
currently available on over 100 makes and models. A partial list includes --
serial number; microcode level; date of manufacture; and assembly versions/part
numbers. You may also enter user-defined inquiry
fields from any vital product data page.Statistical Information: This information is drive specific, and is currently available
on most IBM and Seagate disks. Some of these fields include: Total
recoverable/unrecoverable read, write, and verify errors; ECC errors; current
drive temperature; # of hours drive has been powered up
-- Was the drive you just purchased new?!!; # of "grown" defects Caching Parameters: Lets you view exactly how the cache &
buffers are configured. You can also enable or disable 12 different
cache-related settings, including enabling your disk's write cache, and
controlling maximum and minimum # of read-ahead blocks.Exception Handling: In addition to enabling S.M.A.R.T., you can control the disk's
informational timers, exception testing, error logging, and performance when
running internal diagnostics.Mode Page Editor: The mode page editor lets you view all
mode pages defined for a particular disk, and
make changes to current and default pages. (You have to have the corporate
edition to make changes, however).
Miscellaneous: True Low-level formatter which lets you ether keep or
destroy the grown defect list, read sense codes, read all inquiry pages, read
raw sectors, read partition tables, load, unload, lock, and unlock devices with
removeable media.